Waukegan High School - Annual W Yearbook (Waukegan, IL)

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motion will be brought about approximately. The try-out courses will develop into in-and-out and trade courses. The evening school for adults, especially in the prac¬ tical subjects, will soon find its place in the system. An industrial community is very much in need of such supplementary educational opportunities. 1 o stimulate interest in scholarship and fine craftsmanship, the school awards a craftsmanship shield to the Senior who ranks highest in the following: love of work, perfection in work and service. A division of the National Honor Soeietv may someday be established in our school. The carnation will give way to the golden key which symbolizes the goal of the diligent capable worker. (c) The Health and Play Activities will be further expanded through the pur¬ chase by the Board of additional land to enlarge the Present “W” field. A football field, baseball diamond, hockey field, and tennis courts, running track and field house , will provide physical training for every boy and girl in school. The intra-mural sports will be extended until every able-bodied boy and girl in school is in some sport all the year ’round. The courses in dramatics, public speaking, and debate will be further extended. Ihe new Junior Auditorium which is just being completed, will enable us to give all groups wishing dramatic training an opportunity to develop this most important talent. The Music groups too will have a better opportunity to give their programs than has been possible in the past. The band, consisting of forty members, makes a very creditable showing, but in a school of our size we should have a band of one hundred. This is a possible goal in two years. In this Auditorium a modern radio set will be installed. The programs for schools will probably be given next year, during one hour of the day. When suitable material is being broadcasted, the school will be able to “listen-in” on it at this hour. (d) The next step in organization will, no doubt, be the Junior High School in all the township schools, including the seventh and eighth grades of the elementary schools, and the upper groups of the rural schools. Just how the Junior Schools will be fully articulated with the present system, will depend on the legislation that can be secured in the next few years. Some type of organization which includes this type of school, must come if our schools are to remain progressive and up-to-date. Junior High School work is now being given to the Freshman group; it is necessary, however, to extend this work and this program to the seventh and eighth grades of the elementary schools in order to give them the benefit of a modern course of study and the benefits of the Junior High School organization. (e) It is hoped that the Parent-Teacher Association which now meets once a year, at the time of the Educational Outlook activities in the spring, will expand into a larger organization that will meet at least once every two months. In the years to come the agencies now at work on the enlarged program for our schools will produce a better and finer system of education, and so make a worthy contribution to a better and greater Waukegan. It is worthwhile to note again: “The government, the art, the industry, the cul¬ ture, the spirit of a great people, are in the hearts of the people, not in its wealth, its power, its buildings, nor in any other material things. The economic power of a people must be controlled not to create wealth, but to make people happy. This happiness lies in the understanding of the meaning of life and not in mere possession of the material things of life. Serenity of spirit is a higher and more satisfying end of life than comfort of body.” May the Quadrangle Towers give us all an inspiration to have courage, and give our best in the interest of this kind of education, for the youth of greater Waukegan. M ay “W” spirit never waver in this worthy endeavor. Nineteen

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